Calgary, AB · Charitable organization
Bow Valley Christian Church
Weekly worship services and bible classes for the community.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under C$10k2 grants · C$17k
- C$10k–50k7 grants · C$123k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PINE LAKE CHRISTIAN CAMP | C$26,900 |
| GRACELAND MINISTRIES | C$20,139 |
| LIFELINE CHRISTIAN MISSIONS | C$18,598 |
| MSC CANADA | C$17,462 |
| ALBERTA BIBLE COLLEGE | C$15,600 |
| PIONEER BIBLE TRANSLATORS | C$12,500 |
| COMPASSION CANADA | C$11,800 |
| WYCLIFFE BIBLE TRANSLATORS | C$9,300 |
| FRONTIER LABOURERS FOR CHRIST | C$7,500 |
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
12 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$0 went to new ones.
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.”
Backed again, and grew
- ABALBERTA BIBLE COLLEGE8× · 2017–2024 · C$135k · revenue +33%
- WBWycliffe Bible Translators8× · 2017–2024 · C$100k · revenue +23%
- PBPIONEER BIBLE TRANSLATORS8× · 2017–2024 · C$97k · revenue +229%
Funded once
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent CRA filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matches that aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
International Christian Ministries (ICM) trains and equips Christian leaders in Africa Eastern Europe and Latin America with and through its agents. These training initiatives include various Christian seminars and conferences facilitating…
Provide education and encouragement to developing countries conduct seminars and provide overseas short-term mission trops to christians recruit and train missionaries to work
To conduct Canadian and foreign missions providing funds for missionary efforts To prepare and train national workers for Christian service and send them out as Christian missionaries To provide assistance to people living in poverty
Provide and place Bibles New Testaments Gospels Bible Studies and Scripture booklets worldwide. Provide training for church planter programs. Evangelize educate and instruct persons in Christian commitment and Christian lifestyle. Assist…
Our mission is to support and partner with Christian churches and relief organizations around the world to share our faith disciple teach train and serve. We focus on Church Planting & Evangelism Relief & Development and Leadership…
Transforming lives through god's word through bible translation bible publishing and bible engagement programs throughout canada and the world.
Promote the word of god and to aid in spreading the gospel of jesus christ to the end of the earth. we challenge and assist people to minister to the unreached. we participate in conferences at churches bible colleges and universities for…
Ethnos Canada assisted Canadian churches in fulfilling the Biblical mandate to communicate the Gospel of Jesus Christ around the world by training and mobilizing approved missionaries and engaging in and supporting church-planting…
Missionary organization (recruit train & support full-time missionaries who are each doing some or all of the following: church-planting evangelism discipleship and/or serving the poor & needy. english camps other camps religious programs…
We bring together church partners and local leaders through long-term transformational development programs in which lives and communities move towards the fullness of life characterized by dignity justice hope and peace. In the…
To provide training and teaching to Christian church leaders around the world.
Recruit train and send missionaries teachers medical personnel technicians and other personnel who are qualified to support and/or establish and develop national churches. Provide pastoral care to immigrant and non-immigrants in Canada.…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Pioneer Bible Translators of Canada and the most unlike its peers is Vavenby Christian Church. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2024.
Each one resolved to its own CRA returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2024, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 11 of the 12 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds GRACELAND MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds ALBERTA BIBLE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Wycliffe Bible Translators ↗
- Who funds PIONEER BIBLE TRANSLATORS ↗
- Who funds COMPASSION CANADA ↗
- Who funds FRONTIER LABOURERS FOR CHRIST ↗
- Who funds LIFELINE CHRISTIAN MISSIONS ↗
- Who funds MSC CANADA ↗
- Who funds IJM Canada ↗
- Who funds Intervarsity Christian Fellowship ↗
- Who funds VAVENBY CHRISTIAN CHURCH ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Oak Park Church of Christ · Rosscarrock Church of Christ · Westway Christian Church Inc. · Keele Street Christian Church · Selkirk Christian Chapel · Canadian Centre for Christian Charities · Canadahelps Canadon
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.